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William Collins
William Collins' fuzzy poetry excited Coleridge so much that he made plans
to do an edition of the works of Gray and Collins (Lowes 399). And in a
letter to Thelwall, in December 1796, Coleridge wrote.
Collins's 'Ode on the Poetical Character,'-that part of it, I should say,
beginning with 'The band (as faery legends say) Was wove on that creating
day,'-has inspired and whirled me along with greater agitations of
enthusiasm than any the most impassioned scene in Schiller or Shakespeare.
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1: Mingled measure of a haunted stream Coleridge's ear seems to have overcome his reason when he read Collins' "The Passions." Collins is a very pretty poet, but he often seems to be annotating a charming fancy from Milton, assigning a particular place to an unlikely event, pouring more energy into the melody than the action. Like Swinburne, Collins makes better sound than sense. But Coleridge's love of verbal music may have led him to memorize some passages of Collins, and to imitate his meters. In that process, yes, he may have internalized the vision of a holy place, haunted by a melody echoed from the woods and stream. Did Coleridge borrow the imagery, as well as the complex rhythm? Text
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